NSP platform user accounts

Default user accounts

NSP system deployment, configuration, and support require low-level operations by a privileged user such as root. The root user typically performs most platform-level and NSP system-level operations.

For greater NSP system security, you can prevent root-user access to NSP system-level deployment and configuration commands, and enable access to only specific privileged non-root users. See Restricting root-user system access for information.

The NSP also requires the user accounts described below for NSP runtime functions and UI-based system administration. Each account is created during system deployment.

RHEL runtime user, nsp

Internal NSP functions require a local ‘nsp’ RHEL user group and an ‘nsp’ user in the group. The nsp user owns the local NSP processes, and has administrative control over NSP runtime functions.

The nsp user home directory is the NSP installation base directory, /opt/nsp. The initial nsp user password is randomly generated, and must be changed during the initial login attempt.

Note: NSP software uninstallation does not remove the nsp user account, user group, or home directory.

NSP UI administrator account, admin

By default, a new NSP system has one user account for NSP UI access, the ‘admin’ account. The admin user has full NSP UI and application administration privileges, and access to all NSP UI functions.

Note: Only the admin user, or a user with equivalent administrative privileges, has access to NSP administrative functions in the UI.